Rob founded Olympus in 1988 and serves as the Managing Partner of Olympus Partners and its affiliated investment partnerships.
From 1978-1988, Rob held a variety of management positions in various manufacturing and financial services businesses at General Electric Corporation, the last of which was Senior Vice President of General Electric Investment Corporation, where he managed General Electric Pension Trust's $1.6 billion private equity portfolio.
Rob is a Trustee of Hamilton College, a three decade member of the Hamilton College Endowment Investment Committee, a Board Member and Chairman Emeritus of the Waterside School and a designer and funder of medical research in motor neuron regeneration. Rob has been featured as a guest lecturer in the Private Equity classes at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and at Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business.